Beyond the Blueprint: Literacy in Grades 4-12

Beyond the Blueprint provides a broader, deeper, well-informed research-based orientation required to help older students develop into highly literate citizens.

The Connecticut State Department of Education’s Beyond the Blueprint: Literacy in Grades 4-12 and Across the Content Areas, an extension of Connecticut’s K-3 Blueprint for Reading Achievement, is for all educators, parents/guardians, and community members interested in providing systematic, ongoing literacy programming for students in grades 4-12. Comprehensive in its offerings, this document provides conclusions and recommendations, student and teacher competencies, instructional models and strategies, assessments, and resources and references. Beyond the Blueprint provides a broader, deeper, well-informed research-based orientation required to help older students develop into highly literate citizens.